Skulls and skeletons · Works in collections
Tzompantli
Attribution confirmed Felipe Linares Vargas
Work in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares (Ministry of Culture, Mexico City). In ancient Mexico the tzompantli was the rack on which skulls were displayed; the piece carries that image into the language of cartonería and Day of the Dead skulls.
Context
The piece appears in the digital story “The Festival of Death in Mexico”, published by the museum on Google Arts & Culture. It is one of the artist’s works with a public museum record.
Object details
- Maker
- Felipe Linares Vargas
- Year
- 2010
- Materials and technique
- Molded, modeled and polychromed cardboard with vinyl paints.
- Dimensions
- 122 × 104 × 20 cm
- Collection
- Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico City
- Availability
- Institutional collection
Provenance and exhibitions: Collection of the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico City.
Sources
- Tzompantli – Felipe Linares Vargas (object record), Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares / Google Arts & Culture
- The Festival of Death in Mexico (digital story), Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares / Google Arts & Culture
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